Just a thought, but isn't the XFS pagebuf code part of what makes it so
damn fast too?
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 07:14, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:36:57PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > I don't think so. While it would be nice if XFS used more common
> > infrastructure or its infrastructure (pagebuf) would be more open
> to
> > other fs it is not an absolute requirement for merging. That's
> IMHO
> > based on merging of other file system and code, the last word has
> Linus
> > of course.
>
> Pagebuf is basically useable by other filesystems. For example I
> think
> I could port JFS to use it as backing for it's metapges - it just
> far
> too complex for JFS's needs so I don't see any point in doing so.
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